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Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace / Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Isabella Manning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 1955- author.
- Manning, Isabella, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buckingham Palace (London, England)--Art collections.
- Buckingham Palace (London, England).
- Buckingham Palace (London, England)--Pictorial works.
- Painting--Private collections--England--London.
- Painting.
- Art museums.
- Painting--Private collections.
- England.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations, portraits (color) ; 26 x 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. Published by Royal Collection Trust, London. Distributed in the U.S.A. by University of Chicago Press. 2020.
- London : Royal Collection Trust, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- "In this beautifully designed book, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, and Assistant Curator of Paintings, Isabella Manning, examine 65 of the most celebrated paintings from the Picture Gallery, which sits at the heart of Buckingham Palace. With masterpieces by such artists as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Titian, Jan Steen, Claude, and Canaletto, this publication offers new insights into these world-famous works of art. The authors encourage readers to look at the works in a new way and to consider how Claude paints a sky; how Rubens models the landscape through his use of color; and how Titian uses contrast to add gravitas to a portrait. Rather than re-treading the old boards of provenance and attribution, the authors seek to engage with different, perhaps riskier and more subjective, questions: asking not when were they painted and by whom, but why should we concern ourselves with them? A short introduction gives an account of the creation of the Picture Gallery and tells the story of the monarchs who curated this extraordinary collection of paintings and how the works entered the Collection." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Old master paintings at Buckingham Palace
- Looking at old master paintings
- The paintings
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, in 2020." -- Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781909741737
- 1909741736
- OCLC:
- 1142353626
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